My French Tank

[me™]

The grill is great, although i would paint the Peugeot letters white, but that's just my opinion :)

 

Interesting idea, but I didn't want them to stand out too much.

 

I was successful at the scrap yard yesterday. Finally got the correct banjo bolt for the fuel supply fitting on the fuel pump. The one I bodged together when I fitted the pump was limiting the throttle arm's travel a little bit. This meant I was probably only getting about 85-90% throttle.

With the proper banjo bolt fitted, ho-lee crap! It's opened right up again, revs much more freely and is boosting much stronger.

 

Next project, mount my boost gauge on top of the steering column. I had it in the vent but moved it down to the centre console in front of the gear stick. Needless to say I can't really look at it down there. I've found a nice gauge holder for a flat surface on ebay. It would go nicely just right of centre on top of the steering column. If I mounted it to the right it would just obscure the unused bit at the bottom of the rev counter.

[Milli]

The grill will divide opinions here too... i like the old one more. With the lion, i mean. Lol

[me™]

I have a boot spoiler from a 306 in the scrap yard ready go on. I was just about to go outside and stick it on with some sealant, and it started raining. Grr. :mad:

[me™]

Not been in here in a while... I've decided to go in the OEM+ direction, so I removed most of the stickers and put an early model grille on it (smaller Peugeot badge). I also gave it a good t-cut and wax.

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/cleanfront.jpg

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/cleanside.jpg

 

I also got a proper holder for the boost gauge:

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/gaugepod1.jpg

 

I've also removed my silly stickerbombed dashboard and put the walnut effect one back in. My next plan? Get the backbox hollowed out. I know somebody who is willing to do it. I've met somebody from the 306 forums who lives just a few miles away, hung out with him a few times and he says he has a welder and stuff and he's done backboxes on his own cars a few times. Soon I shall have MOAR TURBO WHISTLE!

[killalldude]

I like the new grill!!

[TIMELESS]

Turbo whistle ftw, it'll sound like a real tank then! :D

[me™]

Turbo whistle ftw, it'll sound like a real tank then! :D

 

...all while looking pretty much standard, muwhaha!

[me™]

Lighter socket. No, I don't smoke, I just need something to plug chargers etc into.

It was originally in a fold down ashtray at the bottom of the dashboard, but I put the centre console in from a later model a while back. This means I no longer have the fold-down ashtray bit. I did, however, have a blank button where the front foglight button would be on higher spec models. Luckily, the generic aftermarket lighter socket fitted perfectly in there.

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/lightersocket.jpg

 

I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. :D

[Ryzza5]

Nice work there :)

[GhostPL]

What happened to your radio panel?

[me™]

What happened to your radio panel?

 

Nothing. I just keep it inside the house when I'm not using the car, so it doesn't get broken into.

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/radiopanel.jpg

[The Compensator]

Nice 306, especially the WTF sticker, but those mudflaps....:huh:

[me™]

Nice 306, especially the WTF sticker, but those mudflaps....:huh:

 

Teehee... They do their job bloody well though! The amount of crap I find stuck to them rather than the bodywork is amazing.

 

I caved in this afternoon and did black headlight masks just like everybody else, was sick of the white ones. I must admit, the black looks a lot better too...

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/blackmasks.jpg

[me™]

Hmmm... time to update.

 

I've got a complete set of 5 15" steel wheels with good tyres turning up next Saturday (bought off a 306 forum member).

Current wheels are 14" with 185/65/14 tyres, the 15s have 195/55/15. This means wider tyres, woo!

 

 

I'm going to make them interesting...

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/wheelpaintcolours.jpg

 

:nuts:

[TIMELESS]

:eek:

[Jacob]

Is that.. Purrrrple... xD

[GTAMADDOG]

Hmmmm... this could look interesting. Look forward to seeing the results :p

[ScoobSTi]

This current obsession with rims colored like it came from the Nyan cat is pretty interesting... :p

[killalldude]

Wide tires FTW!! :D

[me™]

Wide tires FTW!! :D

 

10mm wider. lol.

 

I also got creative with an old t-shirt and a pair of scissors yesterday.

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/camogeargaitor.jpg

 

I've just decided to go a bit mad with this car seeing as it'll always be a rattly old shed no matter what I do. I'm tempted to paint the door mirror caps purple to match the wheels, once the wheels are done first though.

[me™]

Seeing as I don't have the 15" steelies yet, and don't know when I'll get them (guy who sold me them seems to be dragging his feet, I don't believe he's even sent them out. I've opened a paypal dispute)

 

Here's a preview of the purple paint, on my old pair of mirror caps. These will go on with the wheels when I eventually have some.

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/mirrorcapcolourtest.jpg

 

Now imagine 15" steelies in black with the lip that colour ^^

[me™]

Teeheehee...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teehee...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/purplesteelies3.jpg

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/purplesteelies2.jpg

 

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z245/matt88sco/French%20shed/purplesteelies1.jpg

[TIMELESS]

Oh dear god :p

[Ozzmcom]

yeah it's kind of weird mate :P

[Ryzza5]

ummm yeah ^ :)